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From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
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	Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>,
	rcu@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v2 09/12] printk: add functions to prefer direct printing
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 22:10:19 +0206	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rsgvews.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7fc5853e-dbe6-c2d2-2130-003e3b9777bc@gmx.de>

On 2022-04-07, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> wrote:
> In my case - while I debug low-level kernel code - I then just need to
> use pr_warn() or pr_emerg() and get it printed non-threadened. That's
> sufficient for me.

Actually, no. The loglevel does not determine if a message is direct
printed or not. By "warn" I was referring to WARN_ON(condition).

If you are debugging low-level kernel code, you usually will _want_
threaded printing. The timestamps match the printk() call, so you will
get accurate logs. And the runtime performance of your low-level kernel
code will not be significantly affected by the printk() call.

If for some reason you really want non-threaded printing, the patch we
are discussing creates new functions to manually activate it:

printk_prefer_direct_enter();
pr_info("debugging\n");
printk_prefer_direct_exit();

But then your pr_info() will cause significant latencies. The timestamp
would be the same, with or without direct printing.

John

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-07 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-05 13:25 [PATCH printk v2 00/12] implement threaded console printing John Ogness
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 01/12] printk: rename cpulock functions John Ogness
2022-04-06  9:07   ` Petr Mladek
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 02/12] printk: cpu sync always disable interrupts John Ogness
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 03/12] printk: get caller_id/timestamp after migration disable John Ogness
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 04/12] printk: call boot_delay_msec() in printk_delay() John Ogness
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 05/12] printk: add macro for console detail messages John Ogness
2022-04-06 10:31   ` Petr Mladek
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 06/12] printk: refactor and rework printing logic John Ogness
2022-04-06 14:02   ` Petr Mladek
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 07/12] printk: move buffer definitions into console_emit_next_record() caller John Ogness
2022-04-06 14:40   ` Petr Mladek
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 08/12] printk: add pr_flush() John Ogness
2022-04-06 15:17   ` Petr Mladek
2022-04-08 18:57     ` John Ogness
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 09/12] printk: add functions to prefer direct printing John Ogness
2022-04-07  9:56   ` Petr Mladek
2022-04-07 13:35     ` Helge Deller
2022-04-07 14:35       ` John Ogness
2022-04-07 19:36         ` Helge Deller
2022-04-07 20:04           ` John Ogness [this message]
2022-04-07 20:20             ` Helge Deller
2022-04-11 12:50               ` Petr Mladek
2022-04-09 15:57   ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 10/12] printk: add kthread console printers John Ogness
2022-04-07 16:43   ` start/stop: was: " Petr Mladek
2022-04-07 16:49   ` console_is_usable() check: " Petr Mladek
2022-04-07 16:53   ` wake_up_klogd(): " Petr Mladek
2022-04-07 16:56   ` console_flush_all(): was: : was " Petr Mladek
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 11/12] printk: extend console_lock for proper kthread support John Ogness
2022-04-08 13:45   ` guarantee forward progress: was: " Petr Mladek
2022-04-08 20:17     ` John Ogness
2022-04-11 10:45       ` Petr Mladek
2022-04-08 13:52   ` register_console: " Petr Mladek
2022-04-05 13:25 ` [PATCH printk v2 12/12] printk: remove @console_locked John Ogness
2022-04-05 15:03 ` [PATCH printk v2 00/12] implement threaded console printing Andy Shevchenko
2022-04-05 21:24   ` John Ogness

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